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Friday 4 November 2016
Lattice Semiconductor to be acquired for US$1.3 billion
Lattice Semiconductor and Canyon Bridge Capital Partners, an affiliate of Canyon Bridge, have signed a definitive agreement under which Canyon Bridge Capital Partners will acquire...
Friday 4 November 2016
China September mobile communication user base grows to 1.316 billion, says MIIT
There were 1.316 billion subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of September 2016, increasing 0.56% on month and 1.26% on year. 199.52 million (15.16%)...
Thursday 3 November 2016
Oppo tops China smartphone market for first time, says IDC
The China smartphone market grew 5.8% from a year earlier and 3.6% sequentially in the third quarter of 2016, with Oppo and Vivo overtaking Huawei for the first time in the market,...
Thursday 3 November 2016
SMIC constructing 12-inch IC production line in Shenzhen
Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) has started building a 12-inch IC production line at its manufacturing site in Shenzhen, which will be the very first 12-inch fab...
Thursday 3 November 2016
China market: Oppo to contend with Huawei for top smartphone vendor title in 2017
China-based smartphone vendor Oppo will continue to contend with rival company Huawei for the number one position in China's smartphone market in 2017 as it has seen its sales momentum...
Thursday 3 November 2016
BOE to set up 3rd OLED factory in western China, say reports
BOE Technology will invest CNY46.5 billion (US$6.94 billion) to set up a 6G flexible OLED panel factory with monthly production capacity of 48,000 glass substrates in Mianyang City,...
Wednesday 2 November 2016
Maanshan Electronics Expo achieves CNY40 million in transactions, says host
Maanshan Electronics Expo 2016, hosted in Maanshan, China ended on October 31. The event attracted over 72,000 visitors and over 2,000 exhibitors and buyers. Transactions during the...
Wednesday 2 November 2016
China market: HTC to take pre-orders for HTC Desire 10 Pro on November 4
HTC will begin to take pre-orders for its newly released HTC Desire 10 Pro in the China market on November 4. The vendor will also offer the Desire 10 Pro at CNY1,999 compared its...
Wednesday 2 November 2016
Acer eyes China education market with BYOC applications; and tablets for seniors
Commenting on Acer's Build Your Own Cloud (BYOC) business, the business's general manager Maverick Shih pointed out that its CloudProfessor will be expanded to education units in...
Wednesday 2 November 2016
China polarizer maker Shenzhen Sunnypol Optoelectronics begins production in Hefei
China-based TFT LCD polarizer maker Shenzhen Sunnypol Optoelectronics has started production at a new factory in Hefei, northern China, according to Chinese-language newspaper Economic...
Tuesday 1 November 2016
China market: Nearly 12 million color TVs sold in 3Q16, says AVC
There were 11.95 million color TVs sold in the China market during the third quarter of 2016, increasing 8.9% on year, but the corresponding sales value of CNY35.3 billion (US$5.27...
Tuesday 1 November 2016
Global 3Q16 semiconductor sales increase 11.5%, says SIA
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) has announced that worldwide sales of semiconductors reached US$88.3 billion for the third quarter of 2016, marking the industry's highest-ever...
Tuesday 1 November 2016
China software revenues reach CNY3.053 trillion in January-August, says MIIT
China's software industry generated total revenues of CNY3.053 trillion (US$464.01 billion) in January-August 2016, growing 14.8% on year, according to China's Ministry of Industry...
Friday 28 October 2016
DrayTek shifts production capacity from China to Taiwan
Own-brand router, switch and wireless access point maker DrayTek has moved production capacity from Changshu, eastern China, to Taiwan because production in China is no longer competitive,...
Friday 28 October 2016
China market: More white-box vendors step into VR device market
In view of fast growing demand for VR, China-based white-box smart wearable and mobile device vendors have stepped into the development and production of head-mounted VR devices,...